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Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…assembly when he meets with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Washington, D.C. on August 2. Based on a study in The Lancet Psychiatry, the World Health Organization has moved “closer to removing transgender identity from its global list of mental disorders.” United Methodist Church: Schism ahead? Claude Summers explores the possibility of a global schism in the United Methodist Church over the issue of acceptance and ordination of LGB…

Authoritarian SCOTUS Didn’t ‘Just Happen’: As Roe Hangs By a Thread the Press Struggles with Context and Framing

By Chrissy Stroop

…happen), you are simply not framing your story responsibly. Meanwhile, The Washington Post and its affiliate publication The Lily (“a destination for stories central to the everyday lives of millennial women”) have been busy painting anti-choice women leaders in heroic terms. For example, in mid-November WaPo printed a glowing puff piece about Christian Right activist Aubrey Schlackman and her “vision” for a maternity ranch in post-Roe Texas, waxi…

Atheist Richard Dawkins Swings to Anti-Trans Right in Grasp at Broader Intellectual Relevance

By Heron Greenesmith

…oning Transgenderism” as the Daily Wire put it. And conservative paper The Washington Examiner called him, ironically, “the latest apostate from the church of progressive humanism.” Dawkins is also too smart to not know that the UK and US are currently hosting a violent resurgence of anti-trans advocacy, propped up by a deep infrastructure of anti-trans medical professionals and their organizations. As Aviva Stahl reports for BuzzFeed News: “organ…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…by militant Islamists. Government institutions, including the National Broadcasting Commission and the National Child Protection Commission, issued censorship directives banning information and broadcasts that portrayed the lives of LGBT people as “normal” as well as so-called “propaganda” about LGBT lives. That combination of discriminatory rhetoric and policy decisions harmed the privacy, security, and free expression rights of people across the…

As an African American Who Loves Thanksgiving, Must I Simply Ignore the Historical Suffering of the Wampanoag and Pass the Sweet Potato Pie?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…nta Braves (and Kansas City Chiefs) fan, and the obstinate “it’s still the Washington [Football Team] to me” fan? Sadly, and honestly, my answer must be yes. Yes, I am complicit in the celebration of Thanksgiving at the expense of the Wampanoag. So it seems our choices are to either ignore the historical suffering of the Wampanoag and pass the sweet potato pie, or cancel Thanksgiving altogether? Are there any suitable alternatives? There’s been on…

Is the Francis Era Ending the Catholic Bishops’ Cozy Ties to the GOP?

By Patricia Miller

…cozy with the leadership of the GOP since the Bush administration, when a number of archbishops and cardinals openly campaigned for Bush. It was in the bishops’ interest to help protect their friends in the Republican “mainstream” from the upstart Tea Party, with which they had few relationships and little leverage. But this also illustrates the politically perilous position the bishops find themselves in with the Trumpian GOP. Long-time relation…

Is “Weak Leadership” to Blame for Catholic Trump Support?

By Patricia Miller

It’s perhaps a sign of the times that two of the four articles in the Washington Post’s “Outlook” section dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation are actually about the role of evangelical and white Catholic voters in politics—particularly the rise of Donald Trump—in a sign of how inseparable the two have become in what used to be called the “Christian Coalition.” Lydia Bean pins the evangelical and white Catholic support of Donald…

‘Almost Like Praying’: The Religious Work of ‘Hamilton’ Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

By Spencer Dew

…ble Puerto Rican culture, Miranda also implicitly critiques another famous number from that musical. “America” famously features dueling visions of the exceptional imperial state and the far-flung colony: the “ugly island,” “Island of tropic diseases./ Always the hurricanes blowing, / Always the population growing . . . / And the money owing, / And the babies crying, / And the bullets flying.” That song goes on to cast doubt on the reliability of…

The Religious Right Has Come Out of the Closet

By Patricia Miller

…everything its worst critics claimed it was. Here’s Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post: For years, Democrats accused Christian conservatives of being closet theocrats, seeking to impose Christianity on the country and refusing to accept, let alone embrace, American diversity. That was a generalization, but it turned out to be more true than not. She quotes Robert Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute as noting: One of the most astoun…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…of American Power which provided disturbing insight into “The Family,” the Washington DC “ministry” on Capitol Hill’s C Street, which has been involved in a disturbing amount of conservative political success for the past several decades. “If you write about religious people, even your friends may start making certain assumptions about the state of your soul… they’ll imagine that you’re either a scholar or seeker.” What the anthologizer makes clea…